Good start, bad overall.

Rating: 5/10 (30 October 2006)

This Michael Bay movie starts quite well. Interesting idea's about the (near) future are shown and they are quite acceptable. The movie contains some ideas that also are in the novel Brave New World, such as learning while sleeping, although in this movie the clones get manipulated while sleeping but the essence is the same. The movie starts off as a convincing sci-fi thriller, but a soon as the 2 main characters (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) get out of the cloning facility the action starts. And that is what ruins the whole movie, the action is filmed nice with a lot of explosions, special effects and chases. But it's so unreal. The clones are meant to know nothing about the human world, things like car driving, firing guns etc. But suddenly they can, they explain it with a lame excuse which is that the clones suddenly started to learn and get memories. Its all nonsense to create action. The ideas from the beginning of the movie are all thrown away and what becomes is a action movie that offers nothing more than no-brain action. Personally i found Ewan McGregor quite bad in this movie, same for Scarlett Johansson (i liked her in lost in translation way better).